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Saw the light before the explosion 13 billion years |
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Sunday, 08 November 2009 |
 Astronomers have looked at the farthest past - Reuters announced, describing the measurements conducted by researchers at the light of a star that exploded 13 billion years ago, "shortly after dawn of the universe" - the discovery of astronomers wrote journal Nature.
A star extinguished 630 million years after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years before - gives AFP. Glimmer of light, testifying to its explosion, watched two teams of researchers. In the UK study "glow" remaining after the star of the team dealt with the University of Leicester under the leadership of Nial Tanvir, in Italy, studied the phenomenon of Reuben Slavaterra team from the National Institute of Astrophysics. In April, the traces of an American satellite recorded outbreak of the "Swift" and the many telescopes on the ground, then it - after a journey that took 13 billion years old - We received photons from extinct stars. According to the measurements of a star team Tanvir explosion occurred when the universe was less than five per cent of its present age - by Reuters. Until now, the oldest traces of the observed astronomical object is the light of the younger galaxies 150 million years after the star is described.
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